Famous Muckrakers

Michael Rivera

Famous Muckrakers

    

Progressive Era; Was a period of a social activism and political reform in United States that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s. 

Muckraker:Reform minded journalists who wrote largely for all poplar magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting.

Upton Sinclair;

His main focus was on the meat packing industry in Chicago. His best seller "The Jungle" published in 1904 explains the conditions the workers endured during there employment. Workers where severely injured and became very sick. The book was to show people what these workers had to deal with, considering they gained a very low income for there line of work. Also that no safety precautions where given.

John Spargo;       His main focus was on the children labor. He wrote the book The Bitter Cry of Children in 1906. The Main focus of this story was to explain how children lives where almost ruined to working conditions. Children of very young ages would work in very dangerous environments.








Lincon steffens: His main focus was on the corruptions St. Louis, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York. His book, "The shame of the cities written in 1904, explains the corrupt government throughout America.









Ray Stannard Baker: His main focus on the conditions of coal miners. The conditions where explained in the book "The Right to work." published in 1904. Many coal workers risked there lives to work in mines. With almost no training at all where sent to work in the dangerous mines.






Jacob Riis: His main focus was on living conditions of lower east of Manhattan. His book "How the other half lives: Studies among the tenements of New York. He explains how tenements where torn down, and how they only improved sewers. Also how garbage collection became and issue in those areas.